Wire Harness Connector Engineer

About the role

We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life-from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group-57,000+ engineers in 30 countries-we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

• Workplace: On-Site, 5 days
• Location: Foster City, CA
• Salary: $120-140k

We are seeking an experienced Wire Harness Connector Engineer to manage, catalog, and maintain the electrical connector library used across our vehicle EE and mechanical toolchains. This role is critical to ensuring accurate, validated, and standardized connector data is available to design teams working in Siemens Capital Harness and 3DX Catia, supporting the development of next-generation autonomous vehicle electrical architectures.

Responsibilities

• Manage and catalog electrical harness connectors and interfaces within Siemens Capital Harness Tool and 3DX CATIA, ensuring data transfer between the two tools. Accuracy and consistency across platforms is very important for success in this role.
• Own the cataloging and validation of the full connector portfolio, including low voltage, high voltage, and high-speed interfaces (Ethernet, Coax, GMSL, GMSL2/GMNET, FAKRA, etc)
• Evaluate and validate the electrical and mechanical parameters of connectors (pin-out, current/voltage rating, signal integrity, mating cycles, sealing, keying, etc.) to confirm suitability for use in downstream EE and mechanical designs
• Partner with EE design, harness design, mechanical, and supplier quality teams to establish, drive, and continuously improve best practices and processes for connector library management in Capital and CATIA 3DX
• Serve as the subject matter expert and point of contact for connector library questions, ensuring design teams have reliable, up-to-date component data

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Siemens Capital Tool Suite (Capital Logic, Capital Component Manager, and/or related modules) and 3DX CATIA
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with wire harness design or manufacturing
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Demonstrated experience developing or improving library management processes and best practices in a component/data management environment
• Demonstrated experience selecting proper harness connector components for various projects
• Effective cross-functional communicator, comfortable working with EE, mechanical, and supplier teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with harness design and manufacturing processes
• Strong attention to detail and data governance discipline
• Experience with PLM/PDM systems and configuration management

Salary Range

• $120,000 - 140,000
• The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

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